Pentagon: A Human Will Always Decide When a Robot Kills You

"The Pentagon wants to make perfectly clear that every time one of its flying robots releases its lethal payload, it’s the result of a decision made by an accountable human being in a lawful chain of command. Human rights groups and nervous citizens fear that technological advances in autonomy will slowly lead to the day when robots make that critical decision for themselves."

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The 'accountable' human being of course reffers to whatever schmuck they have operating the joystick and pushing the 'fire' button, a fall-guy that the high muckey-mucks can throw under a bus at the drop of a hat when someone calls them out and cries 'foul!'

The 'lawful' part just means that they'll only occasionally, and in 'utmost secrecy' under the 'most dire' of circumstances violate the highly mutable rules that they themselves drafted up.

So, yes, I suppose you're right; bullshit is probably the kindest and most accurate description possible.

Accountable and lawful are applicable to accountable and lawful people. To the best of my ability I have not been provided conclusive evidence that any government tentical is accountable and lawful. It would be intersting to meet the man who made this up.